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Add Or 941
- Record Id:
- 040-003270389
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003270384
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181659.0x000321
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Or 941
- Title:
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Dasehra festival, the svarups of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita being carried in procession
- Scope & Content:
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The Dasehra festival; effigies of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita being carried in procession, accompanied by musicians and bearers of standards and lanterns.
Inscribed: ‘No.27 The Gift of E.E. Pote Esq. Elizath Collins’; also’ Religious Procession. Music and Dancing Girls. Men in the character of their Gods.’
10.75 by 19.75 ins.
[Note: In fact, the ‘svarups’ or boy actors playing the parts of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita, are being carried from one episode of the ‘Ram-lila’ to another.]
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003270384
040-003270389 - Is part of:
- Add Or 937-944 : Add.Or.937-944 8 drawings depicting Hindu and Muslim festivals and ways of life. By Patna artists, c.1795-1800. Inscribed on back…
Add Or 941 : Dasehra festival, the svarups of Rama, Lakshmana and Sita being carried in procession - Hierarchy:
- 032-003270384[0005]/040-003270389
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Or 937-944
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- Bengal style
Eastern India style
Patna style - Start Date:
- 1795
- End Date:
- 1800
- Date Range:
- 1795-1800
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour
- Exhibitions:
- Treasures Gallery, British Library, September - November 2001
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Subjects:
- Festivals
Rites and Ceremonies
Theatre
festivals (Hindu)